For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists' judgments.
Deciding What's News has become a classic. A new preface outlines the major changes that have taken place in the news media since Gans first wrote the book, but it also suggests that the basics of news judgment and the structures of news organizations have changed little. Gans's book is still the most comprehensive sociological account of some of the country's most prominent national news media. The book received the 1979 Theatre Library Association Award and the 1980 Book Award of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. This is the first work to be published under the Medill School of Journalism's "Visions of the American Press" imprint, a new journalism history series featuring both original volumes and reprints of important classics.
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“Deciding What’s News is a good study. It tells us that our colleagues who set much of the nation’s agenda have solid, bourgeois, mildly reformist views, respect authority, want to be liked and probably see the unfamiliar as vaguely threatening. The result is that tomorrow’s news is going to look very much like today’s, even if the world does not.”
——Frank Mankiewicz, 纽约时报书评
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赫伯特·甘斯(Herbert J.Gans) 1927年出生于德国,二战期间移居美国。他是当代美国最为重要 的社会学家之一,曾于1988年任美国社会学协会第78 任主席。他的学术研究兴趣集中于都市与社群研究、规划与社会政策、新闻媒体等诸多领域。他在以上各个领域均有重要著述,除本书外,还有《都市村民》(The Urban Villagers,1962)、 《流行文化与高雅文化》(Popular Culture andHigh Culture,1974)、《中产美国的个入主义》(Middle American Individualism,1988)、《贫困攻坚战》(The War against the Poor,1995)以及新著《民主与新闻》 (Democracy and theNews,2003)等。
Herbert J. Gans is professor of sociology emeritus at Columbia University. His many books include Imagining America in 2033 (2008), Deciding What's News (1979), and The Urban Villagers (1962).
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